Leaked documents show UK intelligence operatives grooming British politicians to silence academics expressing skepticism of London’s Ukraine proxy war effort. One of the targets, Richard Sakwa, believes the campaign resulted in real-world harassment. Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone reveal a high-level British intelligence plot to smear and silence British political scientists such as Richard Sakwa, who is widely regarded as one of the English-speaking world’s foremost authorities on Russia. In a March 2022 email entitled “Russians in our Universities,” […]
that makes sense from a hegemonic perspective, but it doesn’t from any practical one.
russia proved that it wasn’t able to dominate ukraine like the propaganda had suggested it could; yet they’re somehow going to dominate europe.
the europeans have literal colonies within their borders in the form of american military bases and the americans have inflicted the same kind of political violence that it inflicted on latin america (and now the americans are turning on them); yet the russians are still the problem, somehow.
that makes sense from a hegemonic perspective, but it doesn’t from any practical one.
russia proved that it wasn’t able to dominate ukraine like the propaganda had suggested it could; yet they’re somehow going to dominate europe.
the europeans have literal colonies within their borders in the form of american military bases and the americans have inflicted the same kind of political violence that it inflicted on latin america (and now the americans are turning on them); yet the russians are still the problem, somehow.